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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Proviso.
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Provide, however, that the amount for which
the said
city shall be responsible, shall not exceed the sum of
one million dollars.
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Power to borrow
money.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That to enable the said
mayor and city council to meet the liability to be incurred
by them for principal or interest, under the authority
hereby conferred on them, they are empowered
hereby, over and above any existing privilege, to raise
money heretofore imposed upon them, to borrow any
amount of money not exceeding one million dollars,
from such persons, on such terms, and for such length
of time as they, the said mayor and city council, from
time to time may find convenient and expedient for the
accomplishment of the purposes contemplated by this
act.
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Authority to
levy.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted,
That the said mayor
and city council of Baltimore, are hereby authorised
and empowered, in addition to any power of taxation
heretofore invested in them, to levy upon the assessable
property within the limits of the city of Baltimore, or
collect, by tax, according to the usual mode of raising
money, by taxation, in the said city of Baltimore, any
sum or sums of money which may be necessary to pay
and discharge the principal and interest of any loan or
loans, which may be obtained by the said mayor and
city council of Baltimore in pursuance of this act.
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In force.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted,
That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
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Passed May
25, 1853.
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CHAPTER 270.
AN ACT relating to the acknowledgment out of this
State of bills of sale.
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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, It manifestly appears
to have been the
intention of the act passed at December session eighteen
hundred and thirty-seven, chapter ninety-seven,
entitled, an act to authorise the appointment of commissioners
to take the acknowledgment of deeds and
instruments of writing, under seal, out of the State of
Maryland, to provide for the acknowledgment of bills
of sale as well as of other instruments of writing before
the commissioners appointed under that act, but double
exist as to the validity of acknowledgments of bills of
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